The ShiSh List

Correlating Retail Store Sales with Demographic Data

ShiSh — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:10:23 GMT

Retailers are facing growing challenges extracting business value from their data. The growth of data continues, due to new devices and sensors and rapidly declining hardware cost. Data complexity is increasing as retailers handle both structured data...(read more)

Weather Patterns & Retail

ShiSh — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:26:35 GMT

Weather patterns have a huge impact on retail sales. By using weather data to analyze the impact and correlation to sales, you can identify the most important weather parameters and trigger points for your business. A useful source of weather data is...(read more)

Some Big Data Case Studies from Microsoft

ShiSh — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:27:03 GMT

The world of data is changing and retailers are challenged by the increasing scale, complexity and velocity of data. The past few decades have seen exponential growth in computing and storage: driven by Moore's Law, computing power has increased dramatically...(read more)

Big Data in the New Age of Real-time Retail

ShiSh — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:20:34 GMT

Guest Post by Patrick Carter, Founder and President, Digital Folio, Inc. Digital Folio provides a next-generation retail competitive intelligence network that leverages the power of the crowd to deliver near real-time retail product pricing and availability...(read more)

Microsoft & Big Data @ NRF13

ShiSh — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 04:02:58 GMT

Retailers today, face growing challenges extracting business value from their data: First, the relentless growth of data continues, due to the proliferation of new devices and sensors, and rapidly declining hardware cost. More retailers now store...(read more)

Office 365 & Outdoor Brands

ShiSh — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 03:12:07 GMT

There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days around Office 365 deployments in the Retail Industry. For instance, Scandinavian outdoor brand, Helly Hansen , best known for apparel that is the optimal combination of purposeful design, protection and...(read more)

Enabling Great Customer Experiences with Big Data

ShiSh — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:11:39 GMT

Once again, this year, I will be presenting in the Big !deas Session at NRF. This time around, I will be co-presenting with Patrick Carter, (CEO of Digital Folio) and David Waters (Sr, Director of Business Development at Retail Insight). Details of session...(read more)

Interesting Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Stories from the Retail Industry

ShiSh — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:04:01 GMT

Retailer Drives Nationwide Selling Strategy and Cuts TCO by $600,000 with BI Solution : Stein Mart, a nationwide department store, needed better access to business data to set prices each week. By implementing a Microsoft data warehouse and business intelligence...(read more)

Webinar: The Connected Consumer – Profiling Change and Behavior in Today's Economy

ShiSh — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:43:59 GMT

The Connected Consumer: Profiling Change and Behavior in Today's Economy May 16, 2012 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT Retailers are experiencing a tectonic shift in the balance of power towards consumers. Armed with mobile technology and ever more information,...(read more)

How 3D Printers can impact Retail

ShiSh — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:47:27 GMT

3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. 3D printing is achieved using additive processes, where an object is created by laying down successive layers of material. With the possibility...(read more)